UniquePDF

Generate a unique watermark PDF per recipient

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This is my first product. It started from an idea of my brother, and I consider it mostly as a "training" before launching other products.

March 31, 2020 First article blog ever

Just finished writing my first article ever for UniquePDF:

https://uniquepdf.com/blog/top-4-online-tools-to-watermark-your-PDF

Right now I'm trying to have more visitors on my website by having a good rank on Google. It's not really the case at the moment so I decided to write a blog to target some keywords!

My goals is to write around 4 or 5 articles this week and publish one per week during the following weeks in order to improve my SEO.

I guess the biggest part of the work won't be writing the articles but promoting them.

I will get back here for the result in a few weeks!

February 13, 2020 First paying customer

Ok, this was rather unexpected. Here is how it happened:

Two days ago, I was doing some modifications on https://uniquepdf.com, and one user complained that it wasn't working. I told him it was normal as I was working on it and I would tell him when it would be working again. One hour later I told him that it was working.

Yesterday morning, he contacted me again and said that it was still not working! I found it weird since everything was working fine for me, but I tried to investigate. He told me that he needed it asap. After a while I received an email saying that he took the 49$ plan! At first, I even thought it was a mistake, but then he told me to fix it as fast as I could because he needed my tool.

It was incredible. in the end, my first client paid for something that wasn't even working for him! Don't worry, now it's working fine and he already used my tool :D

I will try to talk to him so I can understand what are his needs and I'll try to keep my first client as long as I can!

For everyone out there who's struggling like me to get their first clients: keep working hard, promote your product, talk about it on forums, be sure you appear for your keywords on Google, and you'll eventually get some clients!

November 5, 2019 Stable and online

I finally have a stable product and website that I think I can begin to sell (https://uniquepdf.com). I put it online and learned a lot about SEO during the previous weeks even if I still have a lot to learn. The moment of truth will soon come as I will know if this sparks an interest or not!

October 20, 2019 Finished MVP

After more than two weeks of coding, I finally had an MVP, and managed to set it live! I learned a lot during this phase, from Ruby on Rails coding to hosting. Maybe it took me a long time (for the result I got), but now I can say that if I have to start over for a new product, it will be so much faster! I still have a lot of things to do like polishing my website before trying to sell this product.

September 29, 2019 New idea

It first started when my brother had an idea. Since mid-September, I graduated and wanted to launch my first product for a few months. As I was starting from scratch, without having ever coded a website, I needed to learn a lot of things and maybe this product would fail but let's go for it!

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This is my first product. It started from an idea of my brother, and I consider it mostly as a "training" before launching other products.